Introduction
John T. Moring
The last two decades have been the most dynamic in the history of wireless communications [1]. Most notably, mobile voice communications has exploded from a tiny niche market to a part of our daily lives. Building on comparable advances in computers and networking technology, today’s wide area and local area wireless systems are poised to take us to the next level of mobile data services, where all the capabilities of the Internet are literally at our fingertips wherever we go.
In this chapter, we briefly review the history of wireless communications, survey today’s wireless landscape, and introduce some of the leading edge topics covered later in this volume [2].
A short history of wireless communication ...
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